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Speaker 4: What's up the generation? Welcome to the Big Bets on

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Speaker 4: Campus Podcast. This is the midweek college basketball betting premium.

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Speaker 2: I'm stuck in joining me.

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Speaker 4: Today's my fellow BBOC calls Mike Calabrese a little shorthanded today.

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Speaker 4: Tanner McGrath dealing with a personal issue. Hope all as

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Speaker 4: well with him. You should be back shortly.

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Speaker 2: So for today, it's just Mike and I same format

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Speaker 2: as usual.

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Speaker 4: We'll go through the good and the bad of the

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Speaker 4: weekend that was, and then we'll talk through some of

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Speaker 4: our looks for Wednesday and Thursday's college basket Ball card.

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Speaker 4: Quick programming note. Conference tournaments actually start on Sunday with

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Speaker 4: the Atlantic Sun. We will cover that on Thursday's normal

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Speaker 4: episode with myself, Greg and Mike three Man. We will

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Speaker 4: have an episode out their normal episode on Sunday and

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Speaker 4: they'll cover I think three or four conference tournaments that

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Speaker 4: start early next week. I'll be recording a couple more

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Speaker 4: episodes on Monday that hit the ones that start midweek,

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Speaker 4: and then we'll have a ton of episodes that I

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Speaker 4: think like four or five episodes that come out the

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Speaker 4: Monday or Tuesday the week following where you know, over

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Speaker 4: a twenty four hour period will knock out. I'll do

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Speaker 4: twenty to twenty five conference tournaments with the guys from

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Speaker 4: three Man We Mike Tanner, Greg and we'll have all

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Speaker 4: that out for you.

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Speaker 2: To make sure you're in.

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Speaker 4: five star review. Those help us. But yeah, it's March.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be chaotic. Wall to wall action coming up

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Speaker 4: starts Saturday and tournaments starts Sunday, So let's get.

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Speaker 2: To the good.

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Speaker 4: I'll shout out the couple of SEC Bubble teams in

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Speaker 4: Arkansas and Vanderbilt who took care of business. Arkansas will

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Speaker 4: come great second half against Missouri, helped the Caleb Grill

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Speaker 4: couldn't make a shot, but that was a huge win

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Speaker 4: for their attorney hopes. And then Vanderbilt had a huge

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Speaker 4: lead against Ole, miss blew it, we're able to bounce.

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Speaker 2: Back and hold on.

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Speaker 4: The reason I bring it up is a lot of

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Speaker 4: times there's a reason these teams are on the bubble,

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Speaker 4: and a lot of times in these mustling games you

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Speaker 4: gotta have to pay premiums to back them, and more

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Speaker 4: times than not, you're gonna see these teams fall flat.

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Speaker 4: And we saw that across the board, specifically in the ACC.

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Speaker 4: I mean Pitt against the really short handed notreed Ame

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Speaker 4: a corpse wake. Forest goes down to NC State, SMU

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Speaker 4: still can't get a big win, gets blown out at

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Speaker 4: And then you had Gonzaga, who I think we have

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Speaker 4: I mean their best win is on the first day

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Speaker 4: I mean that was a top ten matchup and neither

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Speaker 4: I know you liked Gonzaga, and I want to put

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Speaker 2: You have to give credit to Saint Marya's. Every time

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Speaker 4: Gonzaga, it's usually about everyone makes it, including myself, makes

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Speaker 4: Brandy Bennett for what he's done with this team. After

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Speaker 2: What he's done with this team is incredible. I know

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Speaker 4: Gonzaga, they just couldn't make shots. Give any quick thoughts

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you would think in an environment like that, a

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Speaker 2: Few sure minus nine in two minutes they lose by seven.

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Speaker 5: And an interesting choice by Mark Few in what you

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Speaker 5: more melts than any gambler this season in college basketball.

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Speaker 5: Teams love to give up double digit leads in college basketball,

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Speaker 5: but Saint Mary's because of their pace, they're so methodical

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Speaker 3: And it doesn't even matter.

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Speaker 5: didn't matter. So I do agree with you. You got to

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Speaker 5: don't get paired up in one of these brackets. You know,

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Speaker 5: I'm hoping that they get one of those pretender teams

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Speaker 3: But that's my concern right now, and I have.

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Speaker 5: To be out on the Zags because other than a

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Speaker 5: and honestly, they just deservedly so.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, friend of the show, friend of mine, rock with

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Speaker 4: Miller's latest bracket at Saint Mary's versus you see San Diego.

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Speaker 2: I will die if that happens.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I will die as well. I'll be right there

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Speaker 2: Please do not all right, for you're good? Where are

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Speaker 5: I'm going to go with two pieces of information. The first,

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Speaker 5: that be something that has a huge impact on Histo university.

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Speaker 5: There's been, you know, extensive studies over the past ten

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Speaker 5: what Woj's doing. He's leaning by example, I'm hoping that

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Speaker 5: Saint Bonnie's can you keep a player or two or

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Speaker 5: I really love, and I love the fact that he's

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Speaker 5: going for it. My only question is if you get

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Speaker 5: like a you know, the seven hundredth home run ball?

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Speaker 5: From a major leaguer, like, what exactly are you buying

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Speaker 4: I'm interested in buying these if it's like all the

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Speaker 4: I have no interest in having a framed hard.

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Speaker 3: BlackBerry, you know, phone or whatever it is.

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Speaker 4: That's something like it'll be Revel is helping to buy

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Speaker 4: to see what we just seven phones? I haven't framed

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Speaker 4: what else you got for good?

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Speaker 5: Also, Clemson, I think we undersold Clemson. I mean, how

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Speaker 5: high can they climb at this point a four seed?

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Speaker 5: Perhaps think it'll be a three depending on what they do.

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Speaker 5: Phenomenal because I mean we've rightfully so slammed the acc

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Speaker 5: They're inside the top twenty five on both ends of

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Speaker 5: They can really shoot from three, they always win the

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Speaker 5: turnover battle, and when Shefflin stays out of foul trouble,

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Speaker 5: they can hold their own.

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Speaker 3: On the glass.

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Speaker 5: So I guess my question to you, Stuck, do we

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Speaker 5: it's still out there at eighteen to one at DraftKings.

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Speaker 3: Well it looks like you got a vote in your

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Speaker 2: Then at eighteen to one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, did Chase Hunter is incredible? Uh, He's taken the

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm I think this is a good time

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Speaker 2: There's not a sexy team to many people that people

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Speaker 4: Why not? You gotta let it out somehow. My weekend

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Speaker 4: They shot twenty four percent combined from three. The one

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Speaker 4: He was nine of twelve from three. He's a twenty

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Speaker 5: When these guys just start knocking down threes from all

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Speaker 4: I will tell you though, Illinois people don't want to

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Speaker 5: I got screwed on my Cooper flag over thirty one

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Speaker 3: At the bottom fell out of the fighting line.

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Speaker 5: that I think Houston's overrated. Not that I don't believe

442
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Speaker 5: they should be a top five team and probably a

443
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Speaker 5: number one seat, but people acting like they're significantly better

444
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Speaker 5: than last year's team. I think that's the incorrect read,

445
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Speaker 5: and I think it'll it'll show itself in the second

446
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,800
Speaker 5: weekend of March. But at this point I was trying

447
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448
00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:28,000
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449
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Speaker 3: So that was a ran for me.

451
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Speaker 5: Just I can deal with the three point variants. I

452
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,800
Speaker 5: can deal with the misfoul shots. I can't deal with

453
00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,800
Speaker 5: losing multiple starters and not having a heads up because

454
00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,359
Speaker 5: clearly they knew, they knew, you know, more than fifteen

455
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,800
Speaker 5: minutes before the tip. So just another reason to get

456
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Speaker 5: an official status injury report whatever you want to call it,

457
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Speaker 5: universally across all of college basketball, because it's been killing

458
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Speaker 5: me and you would think that some of that luck

459
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Speaker 5: would go my way. I can't remember the last time

460
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Speaker 5: I bet a team and then their opponent lost two

461
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a fortunate weekend to say, at least

463
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Speaker 2: for Houston injury wise.

464
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Speaker 4: I hope that we can get Texas Tech again against

465
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466
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467
00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,200
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468
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Speaker 4: So yeah, I hope we get the rubber match because

470
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Speaker 4: Texas Tech has been shorttheaded both times they played Houston

471
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Speaker 4: All right, let's get to some midweek looks, Mike, do

511
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Speaker 4: you want to start things off?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 5: Let's start in the Big East on Wednesday, Yukon. I'd

514
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Speaker 5: probably lay up to eleven. I'm hoping to get ten

515
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Speaker 5: against Georgetown. Know your personnel, No Sorber, he's out for

516
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 5: the year. He's going under the knife. I believe by

517
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Speaker 5: the time you're listening to this episode, they already beat

518
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Speaker 5: the Hoyas by eight in DC without McNeely. Now there's

519
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Speaker 5: no Sorber. Mcneely's back in the lineup and George. Georgetown

520
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 5: continues to struggle on the road. They're own four in

521
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Speaker 5: their last four road trips. Quick turnaround from the trip

522
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Speaker 5: to Omaha against Creighton. Now they got to go across

523
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Speaker 5: the country to Hartford and listen.

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Speaker 3: That Creten game.

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Speaker 5: I think is what is going to be the story

526
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Speaker 5: down the stretch for the Huayas without Sober. They got

527
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,639
Speaker 5: killed on the glass. A team that struggles to get

528
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 5: offensive rebounds. The Blue Jays were all over them on

529
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Speaker 5: the offensive glass, and here comes Yukon. The best thing

530
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Speaker 5: you can say about this team, the most consistent thing

531
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Speaker 5: when they're at full strength, is they can rebound the

532
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Speaker 5: basketball on both ends.

533
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Speaker 3: Solo ball, by the way.

534
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Speaker 5: Has been quiet since that huge game against Marquette where

535
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 5: he couldn't miss from three. I think it's about time

536
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Speaker 5: for him to have a bounce back, find his shooting

537
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Speaker 5: stroke against a mediocre three point defense in Georgetown. So,

538
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Speaker 5: like I said, I'd lay up to eleven, I'm hoping

539
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Speaker 5: i'd get it at ten here. But I think Yukon

540
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 5: has a chance to build some momentum going into the

541
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Speaker 5: Big East Tournament.

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Speaker 3: I think they're going to win this one going away.

543
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 2: I'll throw out.

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Speaker 4: Butler against Saint John's open to get seven, maybe hopefully more.

545
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 4: Maybe it's a little bit of a letdown spot for

546
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Speaker 4: the Johnnies after that big win. They're on the prespice

547
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:55,959
Speaker 4: of clinching the biggest tournament. But Butler. The reason I

548
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,239
Speaker 4: like this is Butler's the best defensive rebounding team in

549
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 4: the league. They don't turn it over too much. They've

550
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Speaker 4: been good against the press, although they did turn it

551
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 4: over quite a bit against Saint John's at the first meeting.

552
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Speaker 4: Johnny's went one of twenty one from three in that game,

553
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 4: but they also went uncharacteristic seventeen twenty three from the line,

554
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 4: and Butler went nine of twenty. Butler actually led that

555
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 4: game in the second half at Saint John's. Butler can

556
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Speaker 4: space out Saint John's, they can move the ball, and

557
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 4: they can shoot. They're shooting thirty eight percent from three

558
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 4: at home this year. They can also get to the line,

559
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean it's an elite catch and shoot offense.

560
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 4: They're not rimmer liant like that's how you have to

561
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 4: beat Saint John's it. They'll slow it up on offense,

562
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 4: kind of similar to Villanova. But if you look at

563
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 4: the teams that have given Saint John's a bit of

564
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 4: an issue in conference play, it's one's in defensive rebound

565
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,200
Speaker 4: and Butler is the best in the league in that department.

566
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Speaker 4: So I think it's a pretty good spot for Butler

567
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 4: and it's not a terrible matchup. I don't think StJohn's

568
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 4: gonna go one to twenty one from three again, but

569
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Speaker 4: they're also they've shot over forty percent their past two games.

570
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't be shoted or they had just have an

571
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 4: awful shoot. You know, if you can keep Saint John's

572
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 4: off the offensive glass, they're going to go through scoring drafts.

573
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 4: So I don't hate this spot for Butler at home.

574
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,239
Speaker 4: What else you got just a quick thought on that

575
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 4: game too. I don't know how much of its gamesmanship

576
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 4: from Patino, because he's certainly.

577
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Speaker 2: You also have Lewis and Richmond dealing with injuries.

578
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Speaker 5: Exactly because he said that Richmond has this, you know,

579
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 5: a laundry list of injuries. Does that mean he actually

580
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 5: plays him off the bench limited minutes. When is he

581
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:26,719
Speaker 5: going to try to get him healthy before the Big

582
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 5: East tournament or is this, you know, him just trying

583
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 5: to play a little you know, late game personnel, you know,

584
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 5: hide the lineup essentially from his opponent because he's Lewis.

585
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 4: Is definitely dealing with growing though he was knockod against Yugan,

586
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 4: he missed a game. Those things can flare up too,

587
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 4: so that it's just like something that could happen during

588
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 4: the game with a little more risk.

589
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Speaker 2: If you back Saint John's the reason.

590
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Speaker 5: Why I wouldn't necessarily make it actionable info in terms

591
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 5: of the Richmond injury, if you watch the second episode

592
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 5: of the Saint John's documentary, he lied to his own son,

593
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 5: Richard Patino, when he said that Richmond was going to

594
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Speaker 5: come off the then he started.

595
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Speaker 3: So it's not it wouldn't be a surprise.

596
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 4: But they're definitely dealing with some growing issues. They're not

597
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 4: going to play, but they're not one hundred percent, and

598
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 4: maybe the minutes to get restricted a little bit and

599
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 4: maybe it flares up.

600
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Speaker 2: But I don't mind the matchup for Butler here, I'm

601
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 2: going to go.

602
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 5: Down to the Big South for my next play on Wednesday,

603
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 5: usc Upstate catching a huge number against high Point. The

604
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 5: projections have it in the mid twenties. If that's the

605
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 5: case of it's north of twenty four, I'm going to

606
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 5: go ahead and take them. This is the last game

607
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 5: in the regular season for high Point. A win wraps

608
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 5: up an outright Big South crown and the number one

609
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 5: seed in next week's tournament. Upstate, by the way, has

610
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 5: been really feisty down the stretch in February. They have

611
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 5: an upset of Charleston Southern in their last game and

612
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 5: five losses by an average of nine points per game.

613
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 5: This is the bottom team in the Big South, so

614
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 5: they played a lot more like a middle class team

615
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 5: in the past month, and a big part of that

616
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 5: is they have one of the best freshmen in the

617
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 5: entire country, mister Dean. I'm sure that he's going to

618
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 5: transfer up maybe to a higher mid major in the

619
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 5: in the offseason, and if not, potentially being a role

620
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 5: player out of power program. He's averaged sixteen to five.

621
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 5: They easily covered against the same high Point team at home.

622
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 5: They were fifteen point dogs. It was sweat free cover.

623
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 5: They lost by single digits. And in this same exact

624
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,719
Speaker 5: situation last year, High Point and head coach Alan huss

625
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 5: they had it wrapped up at least a share of

626
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,880
Speaker 5: the Big South title. In their last regular season game,

627
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 5: they closed as a four point favorite. They lose outright

628
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 5: to Longwood at the buzzer and a team that went

629
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 5: six and ten in Big South play. So to me,

630
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 5: I think this is a situational spot. If you can

631
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 5: get the huge number, I think they're going to go

632
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 5: absolutely on cruise control if they get up by you know,

633
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 5: let's call it fifteen points in the second half. So

634
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 5: I'll go ahead and take the.

635
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Speaker 2: Spartans rolling with Upstate.

636
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 4: I'll throw a couple more Texas might look against for

637
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 4: Texas against Arkansas. I mean, it's a good spot on

638
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 4: the surface. They're coming off that blowout loss at South

639
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 4: Carolina Arkansas. If the Missouri win, Texas has revenge against Arkansas.

640
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 4: Arkansas just started that game red hot from three. I

641
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 4: look the past eight games, teams are shooting thirty eight

642
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 4: percent from three against Texas, only twenty nine percent against Arkansas.

643
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 4: So these teams have benefited in the Arkansas has benefited

644
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 4: from some three point luck Texas is not. Texas does

645
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 4: have an elite transition defense, which you need against Arkansas.

646
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 4: They work in isolation on offense much better than Arkansas,

647
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 4: which both of these defenses force you to do. Arkansas

648
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 4: won't hurt Texas on the glass for their week, and

649
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 4: I think THEO is Arkansas's most important player right now

650
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 4: and I'm not sure he's gonna play, so that would

651
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 4: be a major loss. I think there might we might

652
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 4: get some value on Texas in a huge game for

653
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 4: both and then an ugly one I'll throw out, Well

654
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 4: the spot for Arizona State, who lost Freeman is not

655
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 4: on the team anymore. That hurts them offensively. But BYU,

656
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 4: you want to talk, we should have in the bad

657
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 4: we should have included the reps in that. BYU, Arizona again,

658
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 4: I mean back to back.

659
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 5: It's one thing to make bad calls, but back to

660
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 5: back to end a game like that was just I

661
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 5: think it's enough to open an investigation.

662
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 3: That was absolutely horrific, horrendous.

663
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Speaker 4: So BYU, you know, probably at the peak of their

664
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 4: market value now off that win in Arizona, they're still

665
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 4: outside the top three fifty and has some metrics away

666
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 4: from owme metrics. They lost in the road to Providence, TCU,

667
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 4: Utah Cincinnati. Arizona State is a good jump shooting team.

668
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 4: That's how you have to beat this compact byu defense

669
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 4: and especially at home, Arizona State shoots really well.

670
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 2: So maybe we'll get some value with the sun Devils

671
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 2: Penn State.

672
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 4: I think we might. Indiana is in like must win mow.

673
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 4: They're coming off that Purdue win. Mike get an inflated

674
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 4: number year. Penn State's playing better for the past two games.

675
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 4: They kind of went through a law. They went one

676
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 4: of eleven, one and eleven over a twelve game stretch,

677
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 4: but they dealt with injuries, a number of injuries over

678
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 4: that strikes and they lost games by six, one, five, one,

679
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:51,959
Speaker 4: four to two. They lost a ton of close games.

680
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 4: They even lost by six against Indiana at the Palaestra.

681
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 4: Indiana shot forty percent from three, which never happens, and

682
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 4: Penn say was three of twenty one and ten of

683
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 4: eighteen from the line. Although it's worth noting Renewed Renewed

684
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 4: didn't play and Puff Johnson did. But you know, over

685
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 4: that twelve game strutch Pen State dropped from they were

686
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 4: at thirty fifth in kempom. They dropped a seventy seven

687
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 4: and team shot over forty percent from three against them.

688
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 2: Couldn't miss.

689
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 4: I do worry about the offensive glass and Indiana dominating there.

690
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 4: But and the who's just having good against the press?

691
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,239
Speaker 4: So like in the ninety fourth percent of the very

692
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 4: good against the press. But they're not a good catch

693
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 4: and shoot offense. They don't have like elite perimeter shooters,

694
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 4: which is really how you beat this aggressive Penn State defense.

695
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 4: Niederhauser's on fire the past two You never know what

696
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 4: you're gonna get with Indiana. So with this narrative, like

697
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 4: everyone just saw Indiana win, Oh they're and must win.

698
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 4: They're at home, Penn State's still trying, Penn State's playing

699
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,959
Speaker 4: to go to the Big Ten tournament, keep their season alive.

700
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 4: So we might get some value with the Nitney Lions.

701
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 2: What else you got?

702
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 5: I'm gonna end with fading a team that you brought

703
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 5: up earlier. I like Rutgers catching double digits against Michigan.

704
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 5: I'm hoping to get eleven. Let's just keep it simple.

705
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 5: Rutgers against the spread in their last eight as a

706
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 5: dog with Harper in the lineup, they're five too, and

707
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 5: one he's fully back to his upside that he had

708
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 5: early in the year that was making him a lock

709
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 5: to be a top five pick in the summer's NBA draft.

710
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 5: He just gave Washington thirty four USC twenty five. They

711
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 5: won both games outright and defensively, the game within the game.

712
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 5: This is why I like Rutgers so much. In their

713
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 5: first matchup with Michigan, they held the Wolverines a sixty

714
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 5: six points but more critically, zero points off.

715
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 3: The wolf to golden pick and roll assists.

716
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 5: Those looks. That's what they essentially did with their film work.

717
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 5: They said, we're going to take this play away, beat

718
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 5: us anywhere else on the court, in at least in

719
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 5: your half court offense, and Michigan was able to, you know,

720
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 5: only muster sixty six points. And I also look at

721
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 5: this mini slump that the Wolverines are in on the

722
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 5: offense event sixty two against forty forty nine in their

723
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 5: win against the corn Huskers. So I think this is

724
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 5: the perfect time to take points. Particularly if it's north

725
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 5: to ten. I'd probably play it down to US plus nine.

726
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 5: I think there's a shot that they just shock the

727
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 5: Wolverines if you get a monster game from Harper, So the.

728
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 4: Harbor playing in the first meeting either and Bailey had

729
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 4: a horrendous game exactly.

730
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 5: So I think there's a lot of potential upside and

731
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 5: a huge swing from the first game to this one.

732
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 3: But it's really the defense and what they were.

733
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 5: Able to do schematically to take away Michigan's strength in

734
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 5: the half court. Why I think this is a much

735
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 5: better chance for this to be a one possession game

736
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 5: than a fifteen point plus win for the Wolverines.

737
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 4: Well that's all Michigan can do anyway. I mean, this team,

738
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 4: all they do is win every game. I won to three,

739
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 4: which is very bizarre because they're not a great free

740
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 4: through shooting team. They turn it over way too much,

741
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 4: which is one of the reasons they can't extend and

742
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 4: they can't hold leads. But the last time they won

743
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 4: a game by more than four points is on January

744
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 4: twelfth against Washington. As I mentioned before, their last eight

745
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 4: games four four to three, four three two three three.

746
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 4: And we're not talking a gauntlet of a schedule. It's

747
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 4: Nebraska Bubble Team, Ohio State Bubble Team, Purdue, and free

748
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 4: fall Mode Indiana Bubble Team. Oregon was a four point

749
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 4: win at home, Rutgers by three, not in the tournament,

750
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 4: Penn State by four at home, not in the tournament,

751
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 4: Northwestern by four and overtime at home, not in the tournament.

752
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 4: So it's not like they've had this gauntlet of a

753
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 4: schedule either. So yeah, I'll most likely be on Rutgers

754
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 4: as well. Last one, I'll throw out a scary one

755
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 4: on Wednesday. NC State against Syracuse probably be a small dog.

756
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 4: The problem is they're probably gonna get crushed. Sarah is

757
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 4: probably gonna crush when the offensive glass. But this is

758
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 4: an important game for NC State to make the ACC Tournament.

759
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 4: Same with Syracuse.

760
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:44,280
Speaker 2: And NCC.

761
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 4: The reason I say it's scary. NC State is zero

762
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 4: to ten on the road, so it's not great, but

763
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,439
Speaker 4: they're two and six in games decided by four less.

764
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 4: Syracuse is four and three. I just think we're gonna

765
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 4: have some value in NC State down the stretch because

766
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 4: they finally played their ideal rotation and they played Paul McNeil,

767
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:10,919
Speaker 4: who was incredible against Wake Forest. I don't know what

768
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 4: took them so long to play him that and start him,

769
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 4: and apparently he found out like ten minutes before the

770
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 4: game that he was going to start, and he was

771
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 4: the best player on the floor by a wide margin.

772
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,359
Speaker 4: So I think they can turn Ques over a bit.

773
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,240
Speaker 4: They won't turn it over themselves. Heuse won't force any turnovers.

774
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:41,720
Speaker 4: They can absolutely cook Syracuse in transition since he states

775
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 4: elite there. Syracuse's transition d is really bad. Also, pick

776
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 4: and roll in the half court, they can cook Ques there.

777
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 4: Both teams take a ton of mid range shots, but

778
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 4: NC States much better defending that department. Eleventh for Haslo

779
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 4: Metrics comes into a hundred sixty seventh. NCI State I

780
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,800
Speaker 4: think has been pretty unlucky, priminter shooting lise on both ends.

781
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 4: If you just look at guarded jumpers on defense on

782
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 4: guarded jumpers on offense, teams shooting over thirty eight percent

783
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 4: against them from three since January first, and they despite

784
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 4: the fact that they do a good job of taking

785
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 4: away the three and cust Is shooting thirty eight percent

786
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 4: from three over their past ten games, they're under thirty

787
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 4: three on the season, So I wouldn't be surprised if

788
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 4: you get some good three point variants NC State's way.

789
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 4: But I think it's a good matchup and I think

790
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 4: NC State might be a bit undervalued now that they're

791
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 4: playing their ideal rotation. I mean McNeil what he went with.

792
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 4: He finished twenty four points, four rebounds, three assists, no turnovers,

793
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 4: just a dominant game. And I mean every time he

794
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 4: gets in there, it just is good. This kid's gonna

795
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 4: play in the NBA. And so NC State, I'm not.

796
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 4: I'm all the way out on the Syracuse team. I mean,

797
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 4: if you look at their wins, who if they beat

798
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 4: they beat over the past month. They beat BC in

799
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 4: triple overtime at home, and they beat Cal. This is yeah,

800
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 4: the past monthly bet Cal without their leading score. I'm

801
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 4: all the way out on this Syracuse team. So I

802
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 4: think might look at NC State. That's all I got.

803
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 4: You got anything else, brother, just the ACC.

804
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 5: Big East potential. I mean it's you know, the rumor

805
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 5: that gets floated out there. I've heard this rumor before.

806
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 5: But some kind of partnership or merger on the basketball side,

807
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 5: I'm all for it. I'm all for anything that isn't

808
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 5: dictated by football. Football has destroyed most of the conferences

809
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 5: that make sense in terms of geographic alignments and having

810
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 5: these rivalries. So to be able to put Syracuse and

811
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 5: Georgetown back in the same conference, and I think that

812
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 5: would be really fun, even if it's just purely a

813
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 5: scheduling kind of alliance. But the idea, potentially I saw.

814
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 3: It out there.

815
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:04,919
Speaker 5: You could have promotion and relegation between the two. That's

816
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 5: an idea that really it's one of the best European

817
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 5: sports ideas that I've ever heard.

818
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 3: I think it would be phenomenal.

819
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 5: And have a game like NC State against Syracuse means

820
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 5: something with one team potentially getting booted down so what's

821
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 5: viewed as the lower of the two leagues. But just

822
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 5: something fun to discuss because everything else with conference re

823
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 5: alignment has been the opposite of fun, like NIU leaving

824
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 5: the MAC and things of that nature. So in terms

825
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 5: of a hypothetical conversation, I'm at least here to listen

826
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 5: to it.

827
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 4: By the way, one last thing team, Yeah, very intriguing

828
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 4: for sure. Kansas State one of the most bizarre teams

829
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 4: in the country. They had like just six game struts

830
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 4: with they're the best team in the country and now

831
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 4: they're back being terrible.

832
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 5: Ah And as we said in what the last week's episode,

833
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 5: it wasn't just because they were knocking down fifty percent

834
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 5: of their threes, like all of a sudden, they just

835
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 5: leapt out of bed, and they were a top ten

836
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 5: team on both ends of the floor. And now they're

837
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 5: kind of turning back into a pumpkin or we'll see.

838
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 2: At least it is one of the.

839
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 5: Most bizarre things that needs to be studied by college

840
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 5: basketball historians.

841
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 2: Crazy. All right, that'll do it for us.

842
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 4: We'll be back on Thursday, myself Mike Greg Tanner will

843
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 4: have his Americ East Minute and we'll preview our first

844
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 4: thirty one conference tournaments. We will cover them all here.

845
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 4: Thanks for tuning in as always, Thanks to Mike for

846
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 4: joining me. Thanks to our producer David on the back end.

847
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 4: Most importantly, thanks to all of you for tuning in

848
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849
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